The Russian Federation using mobilisation to kill the indigenous peoples of Crimea, the Caucasus and Siberia – Zelenskyy

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — SUNDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER 2022, 23:14

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Russia is using mobilisation to kill members of the indigenous peoples of occupied Crimea as well as of the Caucasus, Siberia and other territories of the Russian Federation.

Source: President's video evening address

Quote from Zelenskyy: "Criminal mobilisation is used by Russia not only to prolong the suffering of people in Ukraine and to further destabilise the world, but also to physically destroy men - members of indigenous peoples who live in territories temporarily controlled by the Russian Federation.

The situation in occupied Crimea is catastrophic. The information about the Crimean Tatar people has been fully confirmed: most of the mobilisation letters there are given precisely to qırımlılar [Crimean Tatars, a Turkic ethnic group and nation who are an indigenous people of Crimea]. This is another element of Russia's genocidal policy, another reason for the immediate and tough reaction of the whole world.

The same thing is happening on the territory of Russia itself. This is a calculated imperial policy. It is a blow to the peoples of, for example, Dagestan, and the entire Caucasus, to the indigenous peoples of Siberia and other territories."

Details: Zelenskyy noted that "people, in particular in Dagestan, have begun to fight for their lives."

"Why should their husbands, brothers, sons die in this war? In a war that one person wants, in a war against our people on our land. He does not send his own children to war. Fight so that your children are not sent to die - everyone who can be taken under this criminal Russian mobilisation. Because if you come to take the lives of our children, I will tell you as a father, we will not let you go alive," the president emphasised.

He once again called on the residents of Russia "not to submit to criminal mobilisation, but to flee or surrender to Ukrainian captivity at the first opportunity."

Background: Residents of the village of Endirey in the Republic of Dagestan blocked the Khasavyurt-Makhachkala highway with an anti-mobilisation protest on the afternoon of Sunday, 25 September. The police shot in the air, trying to disperse those who were protesting against the mobilisation.

Arrests and clashes with the police took place at an anti-mobilisation demonstration in Makhachkala (the capital of Dagestan, a republic within the Russian Federation); shots were heard and protesters tried to help detainees to fight off police.

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